Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.”
“There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.”
Source: How Proust Can Change Your Life
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Context: With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the symbols for things. One will live. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that's all.”
Oscar Wilde, p. 1
They Both Die at the End (2017)
“The people will live on.
The learning and blundering people will live on.”
"The People, Yes" (1936)
Context: The people will live on.
The learning and blundering people will live on.
They will be tricked and sold and again sold.
And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds.
“What matters most is that we learn from living.”
As quoted in Permission to Play : Taking Time to Renew Your Smile (2003) by Jill Murphy Long, p. 147
"Stairway to Heaven," Thinking in Pictures (1995), p. 202.
Source: Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism
Context: Most people don't realize that the slaughter plant is much gentler than nature. Animals in the wild die from starvation, predators, or exposure. If I had a choice, I would rather go through a slaughter system than have my guts ripped out by coyotes or lions while I was still conscious. Unfortunately, most people never observe the natural cycle of birth and death. They do not realize that for one living thing to survive, another living thing must die.
